Product Description

Sweet and savory. An ideal treat with coffee or tea. This syrup cookie has conquered the hearts of many people in the world and it does not stop. Tourists in Amsterdam can not get enough of this product and are even special in return. Thats why we like to bring this product to you , so the trip can be saved .

A Stroopwafel / Syrup waffle is a waffle made from two thin layers of baked dough with a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle. It is popular in the Netherlands, where they were first made in the city of Gouda.

The stroopwafel was first made in Gouda either during the late *8th century or the early *9th century by a baker using leftovers from the bakery, such as breadcrumbs, which were sweetened with syrup. One story ascribes the invention of the stroopwafel to the baker Gerard Kamphuisen, which would date the first stroopwafels somewhere between ***0, the year when he opened his bakery, and ***0, the year of the oldest known recipe for syrup waffles. In the *9th century, there were around **0 syrup waffle bakers in Gouda, which was the only city in which they were made until ***0. After ***0 they were also made at parties and in markets outside the city of Gouda. In the *0th century, factories started to make stroopwafels. In ***0, there were *7 factories in Gouda alone, of which four are currently still open.